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MONTEREY, Calif. - Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Gunnar Jeannette (Salt Lake City, Utah) will start the Pirelli World Challenge Series (PWC) season finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca form the third and eighth positions in their classes tomorrow.

Sprint and SprintX on the menu

TAVARES, Fla., - Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Gunnar Jeannette (Salt Lake City, Utah) are ready for the Pirelli World Challenge Series (PWC) finale weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, October 7-9. The duo will run in the GTA and GT sprint races along with the SprintX race.

TAVARES, Fla. - The Heart of Racing team is poised to win the race within the race at the season finale IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta this weekend, September. 28 - October 4.

SONOMA, Calif. - Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) drove to his second podium finish of the Pirelli World Challenge Series (PWC) weekend at Sonoma Raceway this afternoon. The young college student finished third in GTA.

MacNeil third, Jeannette has tough debut

SONOMA, Calif. - Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) finished third in GTA in today's running of the Pirelli World Challenge Series (PWC) race run at Sonoma Raceway this afternoon. Teammate Gunnar Jeannette (Salt Lake City, Utah) had a tough 50-minutes of racing and was classified in 21st in GT.

Cooper MacNeil and Gunner Jeannette will race both in the Pirelli World Challenge Series (PWC) at Sonoma Raceway this weekend. MacNeil will drive the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Porsche in the PWC GTA Class. Jeannette will drive the No. 97 WeatherTech® Racing Porsche in the GT category. Two 50-minute sprints races in the WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R’s will be a different format for the drivers. They are used to lengthy endurance races, but MacNeil and Jeanette are ready for the challenge and are ready to go sprint racing!

TAVARES, Fla. - The Heart of Racing driversMario Farnbacher (Germany) and Alex Riberas (Spain) are heading to the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) for the penultimate round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship to run September 14-17.

TAVARES, Fla. - Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Gunnar Jeannette (Salt Lake City, Utah) will drive WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R's in the final two rounds of the Pirelli World Challenge Series (PWC) to run at Sonoma Raceway, September 16-18 and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, October 7-9.

Cooper MacNeilMacNeil will drive the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Porsche in the PWC GTA Class. Jeannette will drive the No. 97 WeatherTech Racing Porsche in the GT category. In addition to running the three remaining 50-minute sprint races, two at Sonoma and one at Laguna Seca, the duo will share a seat for the PWC SprintX race at Laguna Seca as well.

"I'm excited to run PWC for the last two races at Sonoma and Laguna Seca," MacNeil said. "I have done a lot of races with SCCA, but never on the SCCA Pro Racing side. It will be a different format with the race being a sprint format instead of the endurance length I am used to doing. I have only been to Sonoma once before, back in 2011 running Ferrari Challenge, but I was on the podium both races. We are going to try hard to get back up there this time with a Porsche! The GTA class has been close all year. Some of my main competition will be an old teammate Mike Schein. We used to race Porsche Cup back in 2011 and we had some close races together. It should be fun to get back out there with him and see how we fair."

ALTON, Va. - The Heart of Racing driversMario Farnbacher (Germany) and Alex Riberas (Spain) will start tomorrow's running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Michelin GT Challenge race to run at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) from the sixth position in GTD.

TAVARES, Fla. - WeatherTech Racing will not participate in the remainder of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.

"We have decided to withdrawal the No. 22 WeatherTech Racing Porsche for the remainder of the IMSA season," Alex Job, team owner, said. "The decision to stop racing was rooted purely on performance and the future prospects for the Porsche at the remaining tracks on the 2016 schedule. The conclusion was based upon the performance in direct comparison to the competition over the past eight GTD races and the possible variations of how the BOP (balance of performance) could playout over the next three races with our engineering team and IMSA."